Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 205 220
Rank change year-on-year +31 +15 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 255 327 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.46% 1.27% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.34% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 250 326
10th Percentile £501 £550 £563
25th Percentile £555 £606 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £825 £788 £775
90th Percentile £925 £878 £856
England median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +14.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,270 24,463 36,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,767 17,781 26,982
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 283 436
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.97
Median hourly rate £27.25 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +2.86% +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.00 £63.22 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.52 £82.50 £67.08
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +5.80%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +21 23 £663 -1.85% 2
East London -5 2 £625 -13.19% 1
West London - 2 £525 - 2
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 159 (62.35%) Data Modelling
2 113 (44.31%) Data Architecture
3 99 (38.82%) Azure
4 89 (34.90%) Data Governance
5 78 (30.59%) Business Intelligence
6 76 (29.80%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (27.45%) Data Integration
8 69 (27.06%) Data Strategy
9 67 (26.27%) NoSQL
10 65 (25.49%) Finance
11 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
12 57 (22.35%) Microsoft
13 56 (21.96%) ETL
13 56 (21.96%) AWS
14 55 (21.57%) SC Cleared
14 55 (21.57%) Analytics
14 55 (21.57%) Metadata
15 53 (20.78%) Public Sector
16 52 (20.39%) Data Quality
17 51 (20.00%) Power Platform
17 51 (20.00%) Power BI
18 46 (18.04%) SQL
19 44 (17.25%) Sparx
20 42 (16.47%) Data Vault
21 41 (16.08%) Data Lake
21 41 (16.08%) Reference Data
22 40 (15.69%) UML
23 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
24 38 (14.90%) Databricks
24 38 (14.90%) Migration

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.14%) Apache
3 6 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 37 (14.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.39%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (38.82%) Azure
2 56 (21.96%) AWS
3 51 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.24%) GCP
5 18 (7.06%) Snowflake
6 15 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (5.10%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (3.14%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.14%) dbt
11 7 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.75%) OCI
11 7 (2.75%) Serverless
12 6 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.35%) SaaS
13 5 (1.96%) GitHub
13 5 (1.96%) PaaS
13 5 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (29.80%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (26.27%) NoSQL
3 55 (21.57%) Metadata
4 51 (20.00%) Power BI
5 42 (16.47%) Data Vault
6 41 (16.08%) Data Lake
7 29 (11.37%) Big Data
8 27 (10.59%) Metadata Repository
8 27 (10.59%) SQL Server
9 19 (7.45%) Tableau
10 16 (6.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (4.31%) BigQuery
12 11 (4.31%) OLAP
12 11 (4.31%) OLTP
13 8 (3.14%) DynamoDB
13 8 (3.14%) Pentaho
13 8 (3.14%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (3.14%) QlikView
14 7 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 28 (10.98%) ERwin
2 10 (3.92%) ER Studio
3 7 (2.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Liquibase
4 2 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.39%) Git
5 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 65 (25.49%) Finance
2 53 (20.78%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 33 (12.94%) Marketing
5 30 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 29 (11.37%) Telecoms
7 27 (10.59%) Electronics
8 25 (9.80%) Banking
9 17 (6.67%) Publishing
10 13 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (3.92%) Retail
12 5 (1.96%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.78%) Advertising
15 2 (0.78%) Legal
15 2 (0.78%) Local Government
15 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.45%) Kafka
2 17 (6.67%) JSON
3 12 (4.71%) JSON Schema
4 7 (2.75%) PySpark
5 6 (2.35%) Apache Avro
5 6 (2.35%) XML
6 5 (1.96%) Middleware
6 5 (1.96%) REST
7 4 (1.57%) YAML
8 3 (1.18%) Spring
8 3 (1.18%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.78%) ADO
9 2 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.78%) CSS
9 2 (0.78%) DOM
9 2 (0.78%) HTML
9 2 (0.78%) jQuery
9 2 (0.78%) Node.js
9 2 (0.78%) Swagger
10 1 (0.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.08%) Reference Data
2 16 (6.27%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.49%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.35%) Wiki
7 5 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.96%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.96%) Freedom of Information Act
7 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.57%) Data Fabric
8 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.78%) FMCG
10 2 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (62.35%) Data Modelling
2 113 (44.31%) Data Architecture
3 89 (34.90%) Data Governance
4 78 (30.59%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (27.45%) Data Integration
6 69 (27.06%) Data Strategy
7 56 (21.96%) ETL
8 55 (21.57%) Analytics
9 40 (15.69%) UML
10 38 (14.90%) Migration
11 32 (12.55%) Data Management
12 30 (11.76%) Data Design
12 30 (11.76%) Data Lineage
12 30 (11.76%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.37%) Agile
14 28 (10.98%) Physical Data Model
15 27 (10.59%) Data Migration
15 27 (10.59%) Digital Marketing
15 27 (10.59%) Programme Management
16 25 (9.80%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.04%) SQL
2 23 (9.02%) Python
3 9 (3.53%) T-SQL
4 6 (2.35%) Java
5 3 (1.18%) R
6 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.78%) U-SQL
7 1 (0.39%) C#
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.14%) Degree
4 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.39%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.39%) CITP
6 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (20.39%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.59%) GDPR
3 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (0.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) Ambari
1 2 (0.78%) Ansible
1 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (0.78%) Oozie
2 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 44 (17.25%) Sparx
3 38 (14.90%) Databricks
4 37 (14.51%) SAP
5 34 (13.33%) Oracle
6 18 (7.06%) Google
7 17 (6.67%) Informatica
8 10 (3.92%) Salesforce
9 8 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.96%) Talend
11 3 (1.18%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.78%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.78%) Adobe
12 2 (0.78%) Ensighten
12 2 (0.78%) IBM
12 2 (0.78%) Omniture
12 2 (0.78%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.78%) Snow
12 2 (0.78%) Tealium
12 2 (0.78%) Teradata